Anyone want to watch 15 minutes of 1979 Canadian rally action?

"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 06/19/2020 at 21:19 • Filed to: Rally, Canada

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OF COURSE YOU DO!

Wit ness:

The 1979 Rally Of The Tall Pines!

chaozbandit > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 06/19/2020 at 22:24

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Lotta fun gravel roads in Bancroft. A lot of the logging trails haven’t changed much in the decades. Kind of sketchy when it ices over though.

zipfuel > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 06/19/2020 at 22:46

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Epic! Although less plaid than I expected...

Dusty Ventures > chaozbandit 06/19/2020 at 22:50

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Can confirm

boredalways > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 06/20/2020 at 00:30

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Pretty cool!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > chaozbandit 06/20/2020 at 07:11

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Yup! I try to follow the Canadian Championship online every year...it’s always an interesting one! :D

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Dusty Ventures 06/20/2020 at 07:11

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As long as you keep making it through unscathed! :P

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > zipfuel 06/20/2020 at 07:12

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True, but the announcer was very Canadian :P

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > boredalways 06/20/2020 at 07:16

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I thought so! Found it when trying to do some Google Fu on a mystery Borsuq and I have been wondering about....

Walter Wolf Racing (the same team as the legendary F1 team) had also worked with FSO in Poland to build several FSO Polonez 2000 rally cars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Polonez_2000_Rally

SUPPOSEDLY, a few sources we’ve found said that at least one was exported to Canada (Wikipedia being one , a forum post from 2002 which would’ve been another [though I doubt he would’ve got his info from Wiki as it would’ve been only a year old then and this seems too specific a topic for somebody to have made a Wiki page about when Wiki was that new ]) ....but none of them list where they got THEIR info and we can’t find any more info about it elsewhere.

We’re just curious if the car still exists and is still in Canada! :)

zipfuel > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 06/20/2020 at 08:14

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I just realized I watch rally via highlights too much because I keep expecting every clip to end with them bi nning it!